It's vs. Its Homophones Escape Room Style Grammar Game, Slides, & Quiz
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This homophones grammar digital escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of the difference between two commonly confused words: it's and it's! The detailed Google Slides presentation introduces the difference between these commonly confused words with clear examples, ensuring student understanding from the start, and a pre or post-assessment Google Forms quiz allows you to assess student understanding effectively. The highlight of the resource is the engaging digital escape room-style challenge, where students read an original narrative back story where they must escape a bear that has made its way into the school! Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a homophone-related challenge to unlock the security phone to call for help.
This is a Google-compatible resource and students complete all the work on the computer. This works well with distance learning, 1:1 classrooms, remote teaching, Google Classroom, Google Drive or for online education.
Included in This It's vs. Its Homophones Grammar Digital Escape Room Challenge Activity:
➡️ It's vs. It's Homophones Pre-Assessment Google Forms Quiz: Start by assigning this quick 10-question multiple-choice self-grading quiz to assess student understanding of the homophones it's and its. A detailed answer key is included for class review or grading. This can also be used as a post-assessment after the lesson if you prefer.
➡️ It's vs. Its Homophones Grammar Google Slides Presentation: Use these Google Slides presentation slides to guide the it's and its homophones lesson and activity with instructional slides, activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.
➡️ Surviving a Bear Attack Narrative Back Story: Next, students are ready to put what they have learned into action! They will begin the challenge by reading a short backstory that sets up the escape room challenge. Facing a dire situation trapped in the language arts teachers' lounge with a bear outside, Taylor discovers a security-locked phone requiring an 11-digit PIN, but finds a potential solution in a grammar challenge left by a teacher, hoping to crack the code and call for help before it's too late.
➡️ Homophones Escape the Bear Digital Challenge: In this interactive digital escape-room style homophones challenge, students must read a passage and correctly input the use of it's and its to find the pin to unlock the security phone so they can call for help!
How The It's vs. Its Homophones Digital Escape Room Challenge Grammar Activity Works:
How The It's vs. Its Homophones Digital Escape Room Challenge Grammar Activity Works:
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Start by assigning the self-grading quiz to check your students’ understanding of it's vs. its homophones before you begin the lesson.
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Use the Google Slides presentation to guide you through each element of the lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach the grammar concept, introduce the story and challenge, and review the answers.
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Read the narrative story as a class to hook students and introduce the it's vs. its homophones activity challenge.
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Once you have completed the quiz, taught the grammar concept, and read the story, students are ready to try the digital grammar challenge!
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Within the digital challenge, a link is included to a password-protected answer document where students can check their answer. If they are correct, the conclusion slides will appear to complete the story! These slides are also found in your presentation for you to read as a class when the challenge is over.
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Want to check to see if your students’ understanding of the concept has improved? Assign the pre-assessment quiz again after they have completed the challenge to see if they have improved.
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